calvarycoffee wrote:i've posted flyers about this website around the east park course. i was hoping to get some more DG'ers on this site by the flyers.hopefully soon, we'll be organizing a Mason City DG club - with custom discs and shirts and stuff.

Sounds like you are working hard to get things going in the area. Hopefully we can see some Mason City golfers at some events. What are the courses like in the area?

AO wrote:Sounds like you are working hard to get things going in the area. Hopefully we can see some Mason City golfers at some events. What are the courses like in the area?

Dave, Myles and the others are doing a great job getting things going in Mason City. Right now Mason City has one 9-hole course but there are talks of more. There is an 18-hole design with am and pro tees done for the NIACC campus (in Mason City) but the college is dragging their feet about it because of disc golf's bad reputation. There are 9 more 9-hole courses within 30 miles of Mason City with at least one more close to completion. Some of us Mason City Boys were able to make it to an unsanctioned event at Pickard last year and had a great time. Hopefully that will mean a little more touring for us this year.

MC is only 9 holes. I thought for sure there was more. wouldn't it be interesting to get a couple of holes on the campground side of the river, It would certainly be a tough throw to get across the river to the campground. I will see if the first weekend in April is open for me.

RP wrote:There is an 18-hole design with am and pro tees done for the NIACC campus (in Mason City) but the college is dragging their feet about it because of disc golf's bad reputation.

I don't know what approach you have taken with the campus. When I was attending Western Illinois a course was installed on the campus. The party invovled in presenting the course to the rec department of the school had an excellent pitch. We stressed the possibility of intramural oppurtunities, encouraging students to stay on campus on the weekends, another PE class to offer, another activity other than "drinking" (this is a tough sale), and it was an oppurtunity for the school to sell discs in the book store, as well as some others. It was important to share how the school was going to benefit. It also helped that one of the big wigs in the intramural department played disc golf.

You may have already done all of this, but it is what helped us get the course installed, and the results were phenominal. The school benefits, so we all win. One thing that was stressed a lot from the school was that we had to have trash cans (trash was a big concern) at every hole (only nine holes). I think this helped at first, but only became a burden later because drunks on the weekends would be walking home and knocking them over.

Unfortunately some are not as excepting as others. A lot of times it's who you know, not what you know.

Thanks for all the information Buzzznation. It was originally Charlie Schroeder (a teacher at the college) that contacted Rusty Murl (owner of Rusty's in Mason City and Indianola) about a course on the campus. Rusty contacted me and we designed a course. Charlie purposed it to the college with information provided by Rusty and myself. The college then asked some of the students what they thought about a course on the campus and it was the students that were opposed to it. Since then a disc golf club has been started at the school and I think people are starting to change their minds. I think they have one or two of the baskets and are going to install a few of the holes and see how it goes. This is a good sign but it has been a slow process.

Sorry, I don't, and the guy that I would need to talk to you I have no idea how to get a hold of. It wasn't very formal. We pretty much went in there with the layout of the course and a list of the benefits and went from there. They did make us move a few baskets around for safety matters, but other than that they put it in our hands. WE did partner with the city for funding and we did some fundrasing, but the school took care of most of it. We did all of the labor of course.

i bet it will be. I've decided I am going to attempt to get into the action starting hopefully this april (a lot of snow), I will be probably be trying to hook up with Myles at East Park. I called him yesterday 3-5, but forgot to mention i was interested.